Fate/Cursed Night

02 New Normal

During that same night, some hours later, a man with unkempt purple hair could be seen passing through the streets of Fuyuki towards the currently-burning Shinto district while tugging two similarly purple-haired children.

After having returned home from groceries, he was told of the preceding events by his son regarding his sister. Safe to say, Byakuya Matou was pissed.

"How dare that bitch get herself into this mess. If the only other magically attuned pure-blood Matou falls, then Zouken might as well have my head!"

He grinds his teeth, having to remember that the only reason Zouken has him alive still is the sheer fact that he was that old insect's only connection to his more gifted children...

With the old man mysteriously not being in the house, he was forced to drag around his failure of a son and false daughter while finding a way to locate his sister.

"Now what did that bitch last tell you about her location?!" He shouts at his son while gripping harder on the 7-year-old's arm making him yelp.

"Oba-san only told me not to go into Shinto! Oto-san it hurts!"

"I don't give a shit boy! Now, where?!"

"I-I dunno! Sh-she just t told me to steer clear off of the Shinto district!"

"P-please let g-go of onii-san..."

The little girl tries to protest only for it to backfire as Byakuya smacks both children down nearly knocking them into the hill right beside the road they were running on.

"Stay or else no dinner for either of you..." The purple-haired man shouts at the two siblings before running off into the blazing district.

A few minutes later, a horrific chorus of screams could be heard echoing through the night from where they came from only for a cloud to mysteriously rise from the ground and partially cover the moon. The cloud then begins to get bigger and closer at a speed faster than any cloud not caught in a storm had any right to be.

"What the..." Shinji mutters as he looks at it, only for his eyes to widen after seeing that it was an innumerable swarm of bugs rushing in their direction.

Instinctively, he grabs Sakura and jumps off the hillside, thinking to himself, "See Yuji, I'm the cooler superhero here!"

...

Only for him to realize how stupid that action was. He then screams and his sister fell and rolled down the hill. The impact was enough to knock both kids out.

An indistinguishable amount of time passes and Yuji finds himself in the void hearing faint voices surrounding him. With each voice, the volume grew from a barely audible whisper to a roaring scream.

"Help others..."

"Live..."

"A good death..."

"Yuji..."

"Yuji..."

"Yuji..."

"Yuji!"

The pink boy gasps awake before looking around and seeing a pair of purple blobs off in the distance. Rubbing his eyes, he clears up his vision and realizes who those two were.

"S-Shinji-nii? Sakura-chan? Eh? Is it playtime already? But I'm still in the hospital..." He mumbles out in confusion.

Shinji rolls his eyes, saying, "all three of us are, you dingus. Look closer."

Looking down, he sees both of them sport various bruises all over with Shinji's arm even being covered with a cast from when he broke Sakura's fall.

"Shinji-san! Your arm!" Yuji shouts out in panic only to be confused by Shinji's reaction. He had a smug face on him as he proudly boasts, "Of course! Of course, I was the better nii-san than you to be her hero."